A Kingdom Culture

A Kingdom Culture

A culture is the system of beliefs, disciplines, practices, and relational boundaries that reveal how life is lived among a particular group of people. We are working on building a culture where God’s kingdom honored. This will position us for future advancements. We will be enabled and empowered to invade the world around us instead of waiting for them to come to us. For this to succeed we must pursue the necessary things to sustain it.

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus. The lack of miracles isn’t because it is not in God’s will for us. The problem exists with us. Moves of God’s power fail when we begin to wane in our commitment to it.

Where do you eat?

There are two tables you can eat at. One table is filled with a bunch of horrible news, while the other is filled with the incredibly good news of God’s Kingdom. I’ve been eating at the table of God’s good news for so long, people have to remind me that the other one exists. But one of us, or even a few of us, feeding at this table doesn’t create a Kingdom culture.

What we have really worked hard over the years, especially this past year, is to try to build a culture around God’s kingdom. Trying to arrange our conversation, thinking, planning and praying around that. Being a people with constant good news is actually “living in denial.” It’s when the enemy makes a suggestion, you reply “request denied.” That’s the right kind of living in denial. You don’t dwell on the garbage that the enemy feeds out to people.

No more excuses

“For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” (1 Corinthians 4:20)

Stories of the impossible happening are becoming the norm, and the company of people who have joined this quest for an authentic gospel, the gospel of the Kingdom, is increasing. Loving God and His people is an honor, but we can no longer make up excuses for powerlessness because powerlessness is inexcusable. Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God.